Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.
Contents
The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications -- Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children's Drama -- The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition -- The Peacemakers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle -- The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.